- Janet Street-Porter
A former editor of The Independent on Sunday , Janet Street-Porter is now the paper's editor-at-large. As a journalist and broadcaster she has had an innovative and groundbreaking career in television, creating programmes for the BBC, Channel 4 and LWT, for which she has won a Bafta and the Prix Italia. She is also vice president of the Rambler's Association. - Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel (born October 7 1959) is the editor, part-owner, and publisher of the liberal magazine "The Nation". She has been the magazine's editor since 1995 and a frequent guest on numerous television programs. Vanden Heuvel has strong liberal opinions. - Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a columnist for "The New York Times". She has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal. - Katie Couric
Katherine Anne Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American media personality who became well-known as co-host of NBC's "Today". In 2006, she made a highly publicized move from NBC to CBS, and on September 5, 2006 she became the first woman to solo-anchor the weekday evening news on one of the three traditional U.S. broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC). - Nick Denton
Nick Denton is the founder and proprietor of Gawker Media. Nick Denton was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times. Denton is openly gay. Denton co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank called "All That Glitters". - Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of "Wired Magazine", which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He coined the phrase "The Long Tail" in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded upon in the book "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More" (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and four young children. Before joining "Wired" in 2001, he worked at "The Economist", … - Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1921) is an American writer, editor, was the Chairman Emeritus of Marvel Comics, and memoirist. Though no longer officially connected to the company, save for the title of "Chairman Emeritus", Stan Lee remains a visible face in the industry. With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he introduced complex, … - Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith was an active British science fiction fan from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, producing science fiction fanzines like "Drilkjis" (with Dave Langford) and "Dot", writing for fanzines ("Nabu", "Space Junk", and others), chairing British science fiction conventions, editing a 1979 anthology of British fanwriting titled "Mood 70", and serving from 1980 to 1982 as editor of "Vector", … - Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin is currently the President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $16.6 billion as of march 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world together with Larry Page and the 9th richest person in the United States. He is also the 4th youngest billionaire in the world. - Dan Savage
Daniel Keenan Savage is an openly gay American sex advice columnist, author, media pundit, journalist, and newspaper editor. His strong opinions pointedly clash with both traditional conservative moral values and those put forth by what Savage has been known to call the "gay establishment." Savage has also worked as a theater director, both under his real name and under the name Keenan Hollahan, … - Doc Searls
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal , which has been covering the world's fastest-growing operating system since Version 1.0, in 1994. He is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , perhaps the only book (and probably the only bestseller) that began as a rant on a Web site. He also writes Doc Searls Weblog , which usually ranks well up in Technorati's Top 100 blogs (out of about 2.7 million). - Chip Bok
Chip Bok has been the staff editorial cartoonist for the Akron Beacon Journal since 1987. Through Creators Syndicate , his cartoons appear in over 100 publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Time, and Newsweek. He is also a regular contributing cartoonist for Reason magazine and serves as a member of the steering committee for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Pressin Arlington, Virginia. - Paul Allen
Paul Allen was an American author and editor. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he edited a two-volume history of the Lewis and Clark expedition that was published in 1814. This work is no longer considered definitive. - Bruce Sterling
Author, journalist, editor, and critic, Bruce Sterling is also leader of the Viridians an online ecological design community. He has written eight science fiction novels, and edited the anthology Mirrorshades, the definitive document of the cyberpunk movement. He also wrote the non-fiction book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992), available electronically on the Internet. - Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd is a political analyst and author, and political director and on-air analyst for NBC News. He is an occasional contributor to other news outlets, including MSNBC.com and the Atlantic Monthly. Until March 12, 2007, Todd was the editor-in-chief of National Journal's The Hotline. As part of his position, Todd also co-hosted, with John Mercurio, the webcast series Hotline TV, … - Frederick Douglass IV
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1817 on a tobacco plantation in eastern Maryland. His mother was hired out when he was still an infant. He later recalled that he did not see his mother "more than four or five times in my life." When Douglass was about six years old, he was sent to a nearby plantation where he ran errands and performed simple chores. Douglass learned in 1825 that he was to be sent away from the plantation to Baltimore. - Dave Winer
Dave Winer , 39, has been a commercial software developer, marketer and software demoer since 1979. Winer pioneered the category of outline processing, shipping ThinkTank for the IBM PC, Apple II and Macintosh in 1983 and 1984; Ready for the IBM PC in 1985 and MORE for Macintosh in 1986. MORE won MacUser's first Product of the Year Eddy in 1986. He founded and was president of Living Videotext, Inc., which merged with Symantec in 1987. - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. Poe died at the age of 40. - Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria (born January 20 1964, Mumbai, India) is a journalist, columnist, author, editor, commentator, and television host specializing in international relations and foreign affairs. He was named Editor of "Newsweek International" in October 2000. He writes a weekly foreign affairs column for "Newsweek", which appears fortnightly in the Washington Post. - Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he specializes in issues of U.S. leadership and foreign policy. He is co-founder with William Kristol of the Project for a New American Century. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, he worked in the State Department as a member of the Policy Planning Staff and as principal speech writer for Secretary of State George P. Shultz during the Reagan Administration. - Jonathan Alter
Jonathan Alter is a columnist and senior editor for "Newsweek" magazine, where he has worked since 1983. A Chicago native and resident of Montclair, New Jersey, he is also a contributing correspondent to NBC News, where since 1996 he has appeared regularly on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. In addition, he can be heard frequently on cancelled "Imus in the Morning," and "The Al Franken Show" on Air America Radio. - William James
William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James. William James was born at the Astor House in New York City, son of Henry James, Sr., … - Michael White
Michael White is a British writer based in Perth, Australia. He has been a science editor of British "GQ", a columnist for the "Sunday Express" in London and, 'in a previous incarnation', he was a member of the band the Thompson Twins (1982). Between 1984 and 1991 he was a science lecturer at d'Overbroeck's College in Oxford before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of twenty-five books: these include the international best-sellers, … - Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites. - Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois), also referred to colloquially as Hef, is the founder and editor-in-chief of "Playboy" magazine. He has become an icon of American sexuality and a spokesman for the sexual revolution and libertarianism - Michael Kelly
Michael Kelly was an editor-at-large of the "Atlantic Monthly" and a columnist for the "Washington Post". He died in 2003 covering the invasion of Iraq. Prior to his employment at "Atlantic", he was the editor of "The New Republic", from 1996 to 1997. Considering that the fraudulent writer, Stephen Glass, was a major contributor under his editorship, Kelly later felt ashamed that he was fooled by Glass' false stories. - Robert Rodriguez
Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an Mexican-American writer and film director who is known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent and studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards. Rodriguez shoots and produces many of his films in Texas and Mexico. - Jason Calacanis
Jason McCabe Calacanis is CEO and co-founder of Weblogs Inc., a network of close to 100 widely read blogs including Engadget, Joystiq, Luxist, Gadling and Blogging Baby. Weblogs, Inc. was founded in January of 2004 and spurred the growth of blogs. The company a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. Calacanis, who was appointed a senior vice president of the AOL, maintains editorial supervision of Weblogs. - David Miller
David Miller, born in Bromley, England, is a British writer and journalist. He has contributed to many publications including the magazines "Film Review", "TV Zone" and "Starburst" (where his work includes interviews with Sir Ian McKellen, Tom Baker and Ray Harryhausen). He co-wrote the book "They Came From Outer Space" with Mark Gatiss (of "The League of Gentlemen"), … - Gail Collins
Gail Collins (born December 25, 1945) was the Editorial Page Editor of "The New York Times" from 2001 to January 1, 2007. She was the first woman Editorial Page Editor at the "Times". Before the Editorial Page, Collins was an editorial board member and columnist on the op-ed page. On October 12, 2006, she announced that she would step down as Editorial Page Editor, effective this year. Collins will take a year off to write a book, … - Joan Walsh
Joan Walsh is an American editor, writer, and blogger. Since February 2005 she has been the editor-in-chief of "Salon.com", a San Francisco-based on-line magazine. She joined "Salon" as its first full-time news editor in 1998, and became managing editor in 2004. Walsh had previously worked for "In These Times" and the "Santa Barbara News and Review". She has written freelance material for a variety of newspapers and magazines, … - Cy Young
Denton True "Cy" Young was an American baseball player who pitched for five different major league teams from 1890 to 1911. He established numerous professional pitching records during his 22-year career in the majors, some of which have stood for a century. Young retired with 511 career wins, the most in MLB history and 94 more wins than Walter Johnson, who is second on the list. In honor of Young's contributions to Major League Baseball, MLB created the Cy Young Award, … - Rod Smith
Rod Smith, who was born in Gallipolis, Ohio in 1962, is an American poet, editor and publisher. He grew up in Northern Virginia and moved to Washington, DC in 1987. Smith has authored several collections of poetry, including In Memory of My Theories, Protective Immediacy, and Music or Honesty. He has taught creative writing at George Mason University where he is finishing his MFA. Smith currently teaches Cultural Studies at Towson University. - Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 - February 6, 1994) was one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in American comic books, and the co-creator of such enduring characters and popular culture icons as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, Captain America, and hundreds of others stretching back to the earliest days of the medium. He was also a comic book writer and editor. His most common nickname is "The King". - David Remnick
David Remnick (born October 29, 1958 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is an American journalist, writer, and magazine editor. As a reporter for the "Washington Post", he also served as the paper's Moscow correspondent. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire". He has been editor of "The New Yorker" magazine since 1998. He has edited several collections of writings from "The New Yorker" and in 1999, … - Rich Lowry
Lowry is considered the gatekeeper of the mainstream conservative moment in our country as the editor of National Review and as a political analyst for Fox News. Intellectual, yet down to earth, conservative and fair-minded, he examines the issues of today with a challenging and engaging perspective. - Danny Sullivan
Danny wrote Yahoo Surveys Search Rewards Idea where he covers a News.com article showing how a group of Yahoo! Mail users were offered "10 different potential reward options" to take a Yahoo! search survey. Kinda funny, I told them they should do this at last years SES San Jose conference - that they don't have to necessarily pay money to get answers. I am sure it wasn't my influence, since it did take almost a year to implement. - Anna Wintour
Anna Wintour (born November 3, 1949, in London) is the editor-in-chief of American "Vogue", a position she has held since 1988. She became interested in fashion as a teenager. Her father, Charles, editor of the "Evening Standard", often consulted with her on how to make the newspaper's coverage relevant to the youth of mid-1960s London. After dropping out of school at 16, she began a career in fashion journalism. - Peter Stothard
Peter Stothard The Editor of the TLS writes on books, people and politics - Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. He is currently editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets 1 million visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review , a journal of unorthodox technical news.
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